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Posted by Bryan Loesby
Bryan Loesby
504 Points

STUCK: Create a table called "categories" with a VARCHAR column named "name"...

I am having trouble with this exercise. What I have below does not work.

Create a table called "categories" with a VARCHAR column named "name". The name should be up to 75 characters long.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS categories (name VARCHAR(75));
tihomirvelev
tihomirvelev
14,109 Points

It works fine for me and I tested it in the challenge. Try to refresh the page and clear the cache with ctrl + F5. Maybe something became buggy.

Bryan Loesby
Bryan Loesby
504 Points

I've tried with Chrome. FF. and IE. I have also tried clearing my browsing history and cookies. It will still will not work.

3 Answers

James Corr
James Corr
2,678 Points
James Corr
James Corr
2,678 Points

Worked for me in the workbench. Seems strange this isn't working in browser.

Bryan Loesby
Bryan Loesby
504 Points
Bryan Loesby
Bryan Loesby
504 Points

Restarted computer and deleted all history and cookies then came back and tried it in chrome and it worked. Strange.

Ary de Oliveira
Ary de Oliveira
28,298 Points
Ary de Oliveira
Ary de Oliveira
28,298 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 2

Create a table called "categories" with a VARCHAR column named "name". The name should be up to 75 characters long.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS categories (name VARCHAR(75));

Challenge Task 2 of 2

Create a table called "products" with a VARCHAR column named "name", a TEXT column named "description" and a INTEGER "stock_count" column. The name should be up to 100 characters long.

CREATE TABLE products (name VARCHAR(100), description TEXT, stock_count INTEGER NULL );